Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-09-24
PLAIN TALK TO JEFF DAVIS.

The Charleston Is. c. News and
Courier has given some plain advice
TO Jefferson Davis which shows that
Editor Dawson has come to the full
belief tina; the war is over. II says
that the aged dweller at Beauvoir is
simply a Confederate sign post, and
that IL is his own fault that he is "a man
withouta country" 1t reminds Mr..
Davis that he owes more to the South
than the South can ever owe to him,
and that II he goes to Atlanta to meet
President Cleveland he will be untrue
to the people who were always true to
him, for he will put himself In u posi-
ton to injure them by furnishing mr.
terial for political war to the enemies
OF the Southern states. The paper
then concludes: 1T Is incontestable
that Mr.. Davis can go where he
pleases and say what he likes. The
abstract right is not In the question.
But Mr.. Davis is a relic of the past
aud belongs to The past, and the safest
place for him is on his plantation at
Beauvoir. There is nothing in his
career to make him especially note.
worthy excepting his election rs Pres.
ident of the Confederate States aud
his consequent experiences. IL Is,
therefore, As ex-president OF the Con-
federacy that he is wined and dined
and invited to make speeches. When
he speaks he is more likely than not
to say what is irritating and therefore
noxious, and, though he were to utter
the loftiest sentiments, he would be
regarded as insincere, for the simple
reason that his words and act, are not
in accord. The man who declines to
be an American citizen and who takes
pride in avoiding the responsibilities
of citizenship should at least hold bis
tongue and curb his pen, instead of
forcing his counsel and his grievances
upon the consideration of those whose
duties and obligations he Is unwilling
to share. Mr.. Davis turns his back
upon the Union as II IL, and Is at war
with settled and Interchangeable facts.
II be is righ:, then J. L. johnson, the
Lees, Gordon, Beauregard, Colquitt,
Nichols, Butler, Hampton, Mcgowan,
the Vances, Payne, Cockerell, and all
the long line of Confederate soldiers
and statesmen-saving himself-are
utterly and meanly wrong. The News
aud Courier has gone further than any
other newspaper 10 the United States
In asserting the rightfulness Of seces-
sion and the absolute justice of the
Southern cause. IL has ley allowed
a denial Of this to pass unc~hallenged.
IL has been so faithful TO the Confeder
scy that IL Ia, even to this day. de.
nounced as q rebel newspaper
Year after year 1t has told the story OF
the glory OF the boys who wore the
gray, but II is not O blind worsbiper OF
Mr.. Davis. In its eyes the ex-CoDfed-
crates, In their sufierings, In theiI
struggles, In their proud success, ar,
more a thousandfold than Mr.. Davi,
was OF IL, and whenever the idiosyn
crscies Of Mr.. Davis. or his weakness
es, conflict with the interests OF the
b arefoofed boys OF twenty years ago II
will say 70 Unhesitatingly and with
out caring a jot for the sneer OF abuse
OF persons who were safe In theIl
cradles or In official ~bdmb-proofs wher
the fight for the Confederaoy wal
made and lost. The cause OF the ex
Confederates to-day IL the cause Of th'
United states, The United State
are their country. They bave NJ
Other and want no other.